Hampshire County Cricket Club

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Hampshire
Established	1863
First-Class Debut	v Sussex in Southampton on July 7, 1864
Captain	Shane Warne
Coach	Paul Terry
County Titles	2

Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Hampshire. Its limited overs team is called the Hampshire Hawks.

The club plays all of its home games at the Rose Bowl, newly built in 2001 and located at West End, near Southampton. Hampshire was previously based at the County Ground, Northlands Road, Southampton, which had been its home since 1885. The team had also played occasional matches in Portsmouth, Basingstoke and Bournemouth before moving all competitive matches to the Rose Bowl.

Hampshire is currently in Division One of the County Championship. Its most recent success was on 3 September 2005 when it won the C&G Trophy by 18 runs, including a century from Zimbabwean Sean Ervine, against Warwickshire. The present club captain is legendary Australian Test bowler, Shane Warne. The vice-captain is England spinner Shaun Udal. For the 2007 season Hampshire have also signed Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark.

1 Honours
- 1.1 Second XI honours
2 Records
3 Earliest cricket
4 Hambledon and after
5 Origin of club
6 Notable players
7 Current Squad
8 The Rose Bowl
9 References
10 External link

[edit] Honours

County Championship (2) - 1961, 1973
Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (2) - 1991, 2005
Sunday/National League (3) - 1975, 1978, 1986
Twenty20 Cup (0) -
Benson & Hedges Cup (2) - 1988, 1992

[edit] Second XI honours

Second XI Championship (5) - 1967, 1971, 1981, 1995, 2001; shared (0) -
Second XI Trophy (1) - 2003
Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) -

[edit] Records

Highest Total For - 672-7 declared v Somerset Taunton 1899

Highest Total Against - 742 by Surrey The Oval 1909

Lowest Total For - 15 v Warwickshire Birmingham 1922

Lowest Total Against - 23 by Yorkshire Middlesbrough 1965

Batting

Highest Score - 316 R.H.Moore v Warwickshire Bournemouth 1937

Most Runs in Season - C.P.Mead 2854 in 1928

Most Runs in Career - 48892 C.P.Mead 1905-1936

Best Partnership for each wicket

1st - 347 VP Terry & CL Smith v Warwickshire Birmingham 1987

2nd - 321 G Brown & EIM Barrett v Gloucestershire Southampton 1920

3rd - 344 G Brown & CP Mead v Yorkshire Portsmouth 1927

4th - 263 RE Marshall & DA Livingstone v Middlesex Lord's 1970

5th - 235 G Hill & DF Walker v Sussex Portsmouth 1937

6th - 411 RM Poore & EG Wynyard v Somerset Taunton 1899

7th - 325 G Brown & CH Abercrombie v Essex Leyton 1913

8th - 227 KD James & TM Tremlett v Somerset Taunton 1985

9th - 230 DA Livingstone & AT Castell v Surrey Southampton 1962

10th - 192 HAW Bowell & WH Livsey v Worcestershire Bournemouth 1921

Bowling

Best Bowling 9/25 RMH Cottam v Lancashire Manchester 1965

Best Match Bowling 16/88 JA Newman v Somerset Weston-super-Mare 1927

Wickets in Season AS Kennedy 190 in 1922

Wickets in Career 2669 D Shackleton 1948-1969

[edit] Earliest cricket

A Latin poem by Robert Matthew in 1647 contains a probable reference to cricket being played by pupils of Winchester College on nearby St Catherine’s Hill. If authentic, this is the earliest known mention of cricket in Hampshire. But, with the sport having originated in Saxon or Norman times on the Weald, it must have reached Hampshire long before 1647.

In 1680, lines written in an old Bible invite "All you that do delight in Cricket, come to Marden, pitch your wickets". Marden is in West Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire.

See : History of cricket to 1696

Hampshire is used in a team name for the first time in August 1729, when a combined Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex XI played against Kent.

[edit] Hambledon and after

The origin of the legendary Hambledon Club is lost and we have no definite knowledge of Hambledon cricket before 1756 when its team had gained sufficient repute to be capable of attempting three matches against Dartford, which had been a famous club since the 1720s if not earlier. Hambledon had presumably earned recognition as the best parish team in Hampshire, but no reports of their local matches have been found. We do not know when the Hambledon Club was founded and it seems likely that some kind of parish organisation was operating in 1756, although there may well have been a patron involved.

The Sussex v Hampshire match in June 1766 is the earliest reference to Hampshire as an individual county team. Whether the Hambledon Club was involved is unrecorded but presumably it was. Some historians believe it was at about this time that the club, as distinct from a parish organisation, was founded.

The Hambledon Club was in many respects a Hampshire county club for it organised Hampshire matches, although it was a multi-functional club and not dedicated to cricket alone. Its membership attracted large numbers of sporting gentry and it dominated the sport, both on and off the field, for about thirty years until the formation of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1787. Hambledon produced some legendary Hampshire players including master batsman John Small and the two great fast bowlers Thomas Brett and David Harris.

Following the demise of the Hambledon Club towards the end of the 18th century, Hampshire continued to be recognised as a major county into the 19th century. But after the 1828 season, Hampshire had long spells without any important matches until the county club was founded in 1864. The county played some important fixtures during 1842 to 1845 and one match versus MCC in 1861 but was otherwise outside cricket’s mainstream through 1829 to 1863.

For information about Hampshire county teams before the formation of Hampshire CCC, see : Hampshire county cricket teams

[edit] Origin of club

Hampshire CCC was founded on 12 August 1863 and played its initial first-class match versus Sussex CCC at the Antelope Ground, Southampton on 7 and 8 July 1864. The club was recognised as a first-class team from 1864 and was a contender for the "Champion County" title.

This was not a permanent state of affairs, however. In 1886, Hampshire CCC ceased to be a first-class team after years of difficult circumstances and poor results. It did play matches against Surrey CCC and Sussex CCC in 1886 but these matches are not recognised as first-class. Hampshire CCC did not recover first-class status until the beginning of the 1895 season when it was readmitted to the now official County Championship.

Hampshire CCC is thus recognised as first-class from 1864 to 1885 and from 1895 to the present day.

[edit] Notable players

Famous Hampshire players have included England cricket captains C B Fry, David Gower and Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson; West Indian greats Roy Marshall, Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts and Malcolm Marshall; Barry Richards of South Africa; England Test caps John Crawley, Robin Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Phil Mead (who scored more runs for the county than anyone has ever scored for any single first-class side), Derek Shackleton and Alex Kennedy (the last two both taking more than 2500 wickets for the county); Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, who led the side to its first County Championship title in 1961; Richard Gilliat the captain of their second Championship winners, Peter Sainsbury who played in both title winning teams, and in recent years Australians Shane Warne, Simon Katich, Matthew Hayden, Shane Watson and Michael Clarke.

[edit] Current Squad

Shane Warne, Hampshire captain and famous Australia player

Kevin Pietersen, Hampshire player and England regular

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
James Adams	LHB	LM
Chris Benham	RHB	OS
Michael Brown	RHB	OS
Michael Carberry	LHB	OS
John Crawley	LHB	RM
Kevin Latouf	RHB	RM
Kevin Pietersen	RHB	OS
Michael Lumb	LHB	RM
All-rounders
Sean Ervine	LHB	RM
Greg Lamb	RHB	RM OS	Kolpak player
Dimitri Mascarenhas	RHB	RMF
Wicket-keepers
Tom Burrows	RHB
Nic Pothas	RHB		EU National
Bowlers
James Bruce	RHB	RMF
Stuart Clark	RHB	RFM	Overseas player
David Griffiths	LHB	RFM
Billy Taylor	LHB	RMF
Chris Tremlett	RHB	RMF
James Tomlinson	LHB	LM
Shaun Udal (vc)	RHB	OS
Shane Warne (c)	RHB	LS	Overseas player

[edit] The Rose Bowl

The Rose Bowl

For more details on this topic, see Rose Bowl, Hampshire.

One reason for building the new Rose Bowl ground was to attract international cricket to the south coast of England. England has traditionally had six grounds where Test and ODI cricket has been played: The Oval, Lord's, Trent Bridge, Edgbaston, Old Trafford and Headingley. Durham was the first of the other centres to put forward a claim for international status, building the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street, which has played host to Test matches between England and Zimbabwe in 2003, and England and Bangladesh in 2005.

Amongst this competitive background, as part of a four year staging agreement the Rose Bowl hosted a one-day international between South Africa and Zimbabwe in 2003. It was scheduled to play host to a one-dayer between the West Indies and New Zealand in 2004, but this was called off because of rain.

The Rose Bowl was also selected as one of three venues to host five matches in the ICC Champions Trophy in September 2004, along with The Oval and Edgbaston. Five fixtures were played there. It hosted England's first twenty20 International, played against Australia in 2005.

The ground is also used occasionally for concerts, for example hosting Oasis in July 2005 and Billy Joel a year later.